Calendar and diary page



C. F. LEWIS.

CALENDAR AND DIARY PAGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1. Hill.

1,415, 3, Patentd May 16,1922.

SUNDAY I923 TUESDAY I924 WEDNESDAY I925 FRIDAY I92|- UG SATURDAY I922CHARLES FREDERICK LEWIS, on cnIcAso, rnnrnors.

CALENDAR AND DIARY PAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Application filed September 1, 1921. Serial No. 497,635.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FREDERICK LEWIS, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCalendar and Diary Pages; and I do hereby declare the followin to be afull, clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art it appertains to make and use the The anddiaries but is not, in its application, limited thereto.

It -is well known that most diaries and calendars are manufactured tocover a single year only, and this is particularly true of the formerand of what are generally termed desk or memorandum calendars. One yearcalendars and diaries ordinarily are printed in the year preceding thatin which they are intended to be used and offered for sale durin thelatter part of the year in which printe so that their use will beginwith the new year. The need for a calendar or a diary is not necessarilyconcurrent with the first of January. By purchasing a one year calendaror diary at any time after January 1 of the year for which intended, thebuyer secures but a fractional part of a years service therefrom, andthe seller must reduce his price with the decreasing usefulness of thedevice. If the calendar or diary is not disposed of before the end ofthe year for which it is printed, it becomes valueless.

The primary object of my invention, therefore, is to provide a calendaror diary which, no matter in what month it is bought, will have a yearof usefulness. Secondary to this, my invention affords facilities forascertaining with certainty the day of the week of the current date, andthe day of the week of future or past dates. These, and the provision ina calendar or diary of usefulness extending over more than one year, andsuch same.

other objects as may hereinafter appear,

are attained by the novel construction, arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter specifically described and claimed. Referencewill now be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecificatiomwhereln the figure is a representation of a diary page orcalendar sheet,

showing one embodiment of my invention.

Throughout the description which foldiary sheet are indicated to whichpresent invention relates to calendars shown, the calendar lows and inthe drawing referred to above, the several parts of the calendar page orby like reference characters.

The ordinal represents a page of a diary, or sheet of a calendar, of theusual rectangular shape, and whose margins are indicated by 2. Each dayof the year is represented by a similar page or sheet. For illustrativepurposes, as indicated by the drawing, August 5th is the date selectedto show the invention, the page or sheet therefor having that dateprominently displayed. in its upper left-hand corner, as indicated by 3,and, additionally,

at the bottom thereof, at 4.

Adjacent to the printing the days of the week upon which that date fallsina number of consecutive years, are shown at 5; the years, indicated bythe ordinal 6, to which related being in juxtaposition and in. alignmenttherewith.

It is manifest that the printing described above may be arranged uponthe sheet or page topermit of any desired binding. A calendar havingsheets or a diary having pages such as have been described may bepurchased at any time during the first year indicated therein (1921) andhave more of usefulness ahead of it. The top line of 5 of each pageindicates the day of the week upon which that date falls during 1921. Atthe beginning of the year 1922, by turn :ing back to the page forJanuary 1., the sheets or pages not used, as of 1921, become available.Each sheet indicates by the second line of 5 the day of the week uponwhich that date falls in that year. In the figure or diary pages would,of course, be useful for a whole year, if purchased at any time beforeJanuary 1, 1925.

While a maximum usefulness for five years is indicated in the particularembodiment supplied of the date at 3,

year or The pages or sheets are of uniform design each day in the year,except for February 29,

and a series of years with the day of the week on which the said date ofthe month comes in said years relatively indicated adjacent to saidyears.

3. In a calendar or diary, a sheet having indicated thereon a given dateof the month and a series of years with the day of the week on which thesaid date of the month comes in said years relatively indicated adjacentto said years, thevsaid date of the month in holder type then the typeoi the remainder of the said page.

4. In a calendar or diary, a sheet having indicated thereon a given dateof; the month and a series of years with the day of the week on whichthe said date of the month comes in said years relatively indicatedadjacent to said years, the said date of the month indicated injuxtaposition to said series.

5. A sheet for a diary or desk calendar, having thereon in consecutiveorder a numher of years, and in association with said years, a date of amonth, and in conjunction with said years and said date, the name of theday of the week in which the said date falls in each of the said years.

6. In combination in a diary or calendar, a late, a series ofconsecutive years, and associated indicia whereby to determine the nameof the day of the week upon which said date falls in each of saidconsecutive years.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. CHARLES FREDERICK LEWIS.

